Review Request: Add the ability for applets to change autohide timeout value

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Friday 09 January 2009, Matthew Dawson wrote:
> Currently if you update the tooltip's content faster then three seconds,
> the tooltip will never autohide.  This occurs because the timer counting
> the three seconds resets when data is updated.  The problem is that the
> tooltip doesn't go away, not that it never appears.

as Alex notes, it would make most sense add this as a member of 
ToolTipContent.

but i don't actually see the problem. if the data is updating and changing, 
why should the tip disappear? i mean .. how annoying would that be? 

user mouses over network read out
network widget pops up a tooltip noting the current throughput rate
user it watching it ... and it disappears!
mouse out, mouse back in, repeat.

so what is the use case for hiding a tooltip where the data is changing?

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